Sentences with phrase «death matters for»

«The late spring and early summer have already brought several heat waves, which can be life - and - death matters for New Yorkers with serious medical conditions,» Cuomo said.
The interpretative process is a life or death matter for the faith community.

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For Mike Cherim, on - time delivery is, literally, a matter of life and death.
In doing so, the court failed to address a recurring question, one that's often a matter of life and death for police officers and the public.
For a Cabinet official to intentionally mislead the public on a scientific issue with life - and - death consequences for humanity is a far more serious matter than first - class flights or a $ 43,000 phone booFor a Cabinet official to intentionally mislead the public on a scientific issue with life - and - death consequences for humanity is a far more serious matter than first - class flights or a $ 43,000 phone boofor humanity is a far more serious matter than first - class flights or a $ 43,000 phone booth.
It doesn't matter if you're crossing a hazardous body of water or putting your brand on display for public judgment; either one can feel like life or death.
Unfortunately, when it comes to matters like wealth preservation, if we are not immediately threatened with a financial «life or death» situation, the same also applies, and most of us will not act until we are actually confronted with a financially devastating event, and the situation devolves into one of financial «life or death» for us.
But in contrast to the internet giants, who could weather this additional burden, for smaller retailers it could be a matter of life and death.
The ability to present themselves with a great pitch can be a matter of life and death for startups.
Gunman Nikolas Cruz prowled the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for six horrible minutes — a flash of terror where life and death became a matter of chance.
Unfortunately, fear of death, no matter how effective as a tool for social engineering, is not the proper moral grounds for virtue...
Fox - Genovese writes, «For although the Constitution prohibits the establishment of specific churches and prescribes a tolerance for different faiths, it presupposes a fundamental Christian ethic and does not leave matters of life and death to the private judgment of individuals.&raqFor although the Constitution prohibits the establishment of specific churches and prescribes a tolerance for different faiths, it presupposes a fundamental Christian ethic and does not leave matters of life and death to the private judgment of individuals.&raqfor different faiths, it presupposes a fundamental Christian ethic and does not leave matters of life and death to the private judgment of individuals.»
I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...
It's time we, as a nation, stop looking at abortion as merely a political issue and see it for what it is - a matter of life and death.
And for the majority of Christians, who hold to the traditional Christian view of hell, these matters really are about (eternal) life and death.
Yes, you are correct that the religious leaders of Christendom gave their blessing to its members to kill others «in the name of Christ», such as Catholic Dominican inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada (1420 - 98) of Spain, who ruled tyrannically for 15 years (1483 - 98, with the blessings of Pope Sixtus IV [who praise him for «directing his zeal to those matters that contribute to the praise of God»] and Innocent VIII) and saw that over 114,000 (of which 10, 220 were burned at the stake) people were put to death.
Um nope let me believe there is life after death it is much easier for me to get up in the morning and not commit mass murder because it doesn't matter we are all going to die anyhow and no one is going to punish me once I'm dead anyhow might as well take a bunch of you with me.
For a casual gardener the difference is distressing; for a hungry family, the difference can be a matter of life and deaFor a casual gardener the difference is distressing; for a hungry family, the difference can be a matter of life and deafor a hungry family, the difference can be a matter of life and death.
Death was an abstract fact of reality for me, mainly a reason to pursue now what mattered most in life.
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Jesus went to the cross out of love, to rescue us from sin, death, and devil, but since the Gospels (or the rest of the New Testament for that matter) don't place much emphasis on the blood of Jesus or the pain He went through on the cross, maybe we shouldn't either.
Because, Lord, by every innate impulse and through all the hazards of my life I have been driven ceaselessly to search for you and to set you in the heart of the universe of matter, I shall have the joy, when death comes, of closing my eyes amidst the splendour of a universal transparency aglow with fire...
Such a distinction has, as a matter of fact, been drawn by Ernst Fuchs «What is still lacking for Jesus is now supplemented as a consequence of Jesus cross: the problem of sin expands to the problem of death as a whole.
«Raise me up then, matter, to those heights, through struggle and separation and death; raise me up until, at long last, it becomes possible for me in perfect chastity to embrace the universe.»
«Never say, «Matter is accursed, matter is evil»: for there has come one who said, «You will drink poisonous draughts and they shall not harm you», and again, «Life shall spring forth out of death», and then finally, the words which spell my definitive liberation, «This is my body&rMatter is accursed, matter is evil»: for there has come one who said, «You will drink poisonous draughts and they shall not harm you», and again, «Life shall spring forth out of death», and then finally, the words which spell my definitive liberation, «This is my body&rmatter is evil»: for there has come one who said, «You will drink poisonous draughts and they shall not harm you», and again, «Life shall spring forth out of death», and then finally, the words which spell my definitive liberation, «This is my body».
But for that matter, I do not quite accept the «atheism» of Marx or of the death - of - God theologians for the very same reason, namely, that their counter-arguments against traditional theism also take their point of departure from the dualistic framework.
Few philosophers» lives can boast comic (or, for that matter, tragic) material comparable to Kierkegaard's aborted engagement to Regine Olsen, the bizarrely exaggerated symbolic significance he attached to it, his firm expectation of death before the age of thirty - four on account of some unnamed sin of his father's, his intentional provocation of a feud with the satirical review The Corsair, or his splenetic quarrels with the Danish Lutheran church (and so on).
Again, what matters most about Jesus is his death as a substitutionary sacrifice for the sins of the world so that we can be forgiven and go to heaven.
And yet the answer to such a question can be a matter of life and death for a civilization or for the whole world.
These are matters of life and death and eternity, yet here we are trying to figure out if our interpretation is correct or not, and looks like we will not know for sure until we die (which could be too late).
For babies and young children selfishness in that context can be a matter of life and death.
6William Blackstone argues for Schweitzer's role as mentor in the animal liberation movement in «The Search for an Environmental Ethic,» in Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed.
You would be irresponsible if you take your life lightly and for that matter if you take the moment of your death lightly.
Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to «whatever gods there be,» why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.
When faced with the question of why does death occur like this (or at all for that matter), a typical theology responds by declaring that the origin of death is sin.
And it has been understood that the pro-choice position is that the life or death of the unborn child is a private matter to be decided at the sole discretion of the mother - for any reason and at any point of the child's life up through the moment of being born.
Religious believers are dismayed by evolution theories because, by locating the origin of all things in the brute indifference of matter, these theories seem to destroy the eschatological hope for that perfection and perpetuity of life beyond the grave in which we are reunited with loved ones and freed from the curses of sin and death.
«Red» is all that Morrison need say, for she shows us what it means to know color as a matter of life and death.
By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.
Thus no matter what may happen to the body, man's soul is immortal and since it is this which constitutes his distinctive human quality, death is an important and tragic incident, certainly to those who loved and cared for the one who dies, but it is not a final incident — there is more to come, so to say.
... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself.
But the desire for personal survival after death is quite a different matter.
In short, man is sometimes regarded as a cosmic being, sometimes as an independent «I» for whom decision is a matter of life or death.
If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I can not explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type.
The reason this effect followed upon Jesus» life and death was a matter for reflection and speculation, as we shall see; but the effect itself was a fact of immediate experience.
It was only after it had come to be seen that Jesus must have been the Messiah even during his earthly life (and this, we can be sure, happened almost at once) that the death became a matter for theological reflection.
For many of them it was a matter of life and death.
but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!
It doesn't matter much to Cannon that death might be an overly severe penalty for blackmail or burglary.
Here the person has discovered what the philosophers call the ontological question as a matter of life and death for the self.
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